I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.
Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.
Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it.
I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer, I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where I just felt like they could do in a short story what so many writers needed a whole novel to do, and that was really inspiring to me.
I love stories. But I don't distinguish so much between a short story and a novel. Personally, when I sit down to read a novel or a Chekhov story, I'm seeking the same thing: I'm seeking that same rich portrayal of life in words.
I want the reader to feel something is astonishing - not the 'what happens' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.
I love intricate plotting and exciting twists, but I realize more that people enjoy a good story in a simple, focused way.
Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories.
Short stories are often strong meat. Reading them, even listening to them, can be challenging, by which I do not mean hard work, simply that a certain amount of nerve and maturity is required.